We turn any border’s pet rules into one dated to-do list, check your vet’s paperwork against it — then complete the forms and file them on your behalf.
Dogs · Cats · Ferrets — and nothing else, on purpose
MUM → PAR
One dog ✓
START BY
4 months out
How early is early enough?
Nine borders, ranked by how far ahead you have to start. Every bar ends at departure — where it starts is the day you begin. Pick any row for its whole sequence.
7 mo42Departure
In order, not to scale
−8mo−8 mo
Microchip, then two rabies vaccinations
The chip must be implanted and recorded first, or both certificates are void.
30 daysThe blood draw cannot happen sooner than 30 days after the vaccination. Drawn on day 29, a perfect result is still void.
−7mo−7 mo
Blood draw for the titer
Write this date down. It is the one every deadline below is counted from.
~2 weeksLab turnaround. The 180-day clock below is already running while you wait for the number.
−6½mo−6½ mo
Titer result — 0.5 IU/ml or above
Below the threshold and the whole sequence restarts from a new vaccination.
180 days
Counted from the BLOOD-DRAW date, not the result date. This is the single most common way people start late.
−40d−40 d
Advance notification to the arrival airport
Japan wants to know you are coming at least forty days before you land.
the final stretchYour vet’s certificate and the airport’s paperwork, issued close to departure — the one part of this route that is a sprint.
GODAY 0
Departure ✈
Serve that whole wait at home and inspection on arrival clears in hours, not months.
The one that catches more Americans than any other route.
A vet has to confirm the chip is your animal’s own before any blood is drawn. Skipped here, the shorter quarantine is off the table for the whole trip.
before the drawThe vaccination has to be on record first — the sample is only meaningful once it is.
−7mo−7 mo
RNATT blood draw
Write this date down. Australia counts the long wait below from this day.
180 days
The titer must be at least 180 days old before your animal can leave. There is no way to shorten it.
−2mo−2 mo
Import permit approved
Approved and in hand before travel — applied-for is not the same thing.
the final stretchVet certification, and your reserved place at the Mickleham quarantine facility.
GODAY 0
Arrival → 30 days at Mickleham ✈
Reducible to 10 only if the identity check at the top was done before the blood draw.
Ferrets: not admitted from the US — Australia takes them only from New Zealand
Budget 30 days of quarantine unless the 10-day conditions are met exactly.
A vet has to confirm the chip is your animal’s own before any blood is drawn. Skipped here, the shorter quarantine is off the table for the whole trip.
before the drawThe vaccination has to be on record first — the sample is only meaningful once it is.
−7mo−7 mo
RNATT blood draw
Write this date down. Australia counts the long wait below from this day.
180 days
The titer must be at least 180 days old before your animal can leave. There is no way to shorten it.
−2mo−2 mo
Import permit approved
Approved and in hand before travel — applied-for is not the same thing.
the final stretchVet certification, and your reserved place at the Mickleham quarantine facility.
GODAY 0
Arrival → 30 days at Mickleham ✈
Reducible to 10 only if the identity check at the top was done before the blood draw.
Ferrets: not admitted from the US — Australia takes them only from New Zealand
Budget 30 days of quarantine unless the 10-day conditions are met exactly.
Coming home too? A round trip is two imports, not one — the US has its own rules for dogs on the way back (CDC form, microchip, and a six-month age floor). Read about the return leg →
Nine routes, checked by hand. Rules change — confirm yours with the destination authority before you travel.
Two ways to do this
Both are personal — a real consultant works your file either way. The difference is how much of the trip they carry with you.
Filing is per pet · the consultant is per direction · one direction each way
Filing
$99per pet, one direction
You gather the documents. We make sure they are right — then we file them for you.
Your route, worked out
Every document, test and waiting period your exact route requires — destination, origin and species
The full sequence in order, with the earliest date each step can legally happen
Your start-by date, counted backwards from departure
Hard stops checked before you spend anything — breed restrictions, quarantine, species bans
Your documents, checked
A pet-travel consultant reads every critical value against the destination’s current rules
Microchip number matched across every certificate — one transposed digit is a rejected file
Dates cross-checked for the traps: a titer drawn inside 30 days, a chip dated after the dose, a certificate outside its window
A written list of exactly what is missing or wrong, in plain language, while it is still fixable
Re-checked after you fix it — as many rounds as your trip needs
Filed for you
Forms completed and submitted on your behalf, to the right authority in the right order
Your final document pack, assembled in the order a border officer will ask for it
Confirmation of what was filed and when, so nothing rests on memory
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What we need from you: everything. Supplying complete, accurate documents is yours to do — we tell you exactly what is missing, but we cannot obtain records on your behalf at this tier.
$198for one pet — $99 per extra pet, consultant charged once per direction
Everything in Filing — plus a consultant who carries the whole trip with you. 🐾
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Everything in Filing— plus all of this:
A consultant you can talk to
A scheduled one-to-one consultation — your trip, your questions, a real person
Ask questions directly for the life of your trip, not through a help article
Priority responses while your trip is live
A full second pass over the whole file before anything is called final
The whole trip planned, not just the file
A dated plan for what to arrange and when, so the sequence never traps you
Airline rules walked through — carrier sizing, cabin or hold eligibility, per-flight pet limits, breed cautions
A referral to a licensed IPATA specialist when your pet travels in the hold
Your destination’s dos and don’ts — including the ones not written down anywhere obvious
Arrival-day walkthrough: what happens at inspection and what to have in your hand
Contingency planning for the two things that actually go wrong — a failed titer and a missed window
A brief your vet can work from
A written brief for your veterinarian — exactly which tests, which forms, and the date window each one must fall inside
Which kind of vet your route needs (some require a government-accredited one) and where the official directory is — you book it, we tell you what to book
Your titer timing worked out in advance, so the draw date and the result both land where they have to
Every result you send back read and checked against the destination’s rules before it goes in the file
A round trip is two imports, not one — the way back has its own rules and its own paperwork. Add it to either service and we prepare and file both directions.On Guided the way home is planned separately too, so it adds a second $99 consultant charge on top of the $49 per pet.
Added when you buy, not later. The return has its own requirements, and they have to be planned into the same timeline as the outbound rather than bolted on at the end. One-time — nothing recurring, no subscription.
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We get it right, or you don’t pay.
Our money-back guarantee: miss a requirement, misread a value, or file something that gets rejected — we fix it free and refund your fee. Checking the file is the job. If the check fails, the fee is yours back.
Covers our work — the part we control. It is not a promise about a border officer’s decision, because nobody can honestly sell you that. The single exclusion: information that was false in the records handed to us, which no check can catch.
Guidance, not booking. We advise what to arrange and when, and refer hold travel to a licensed IPATA specialist. We do not arrange travel ourselves, and we never take possession of an animal.
Coordination, not clinical care. We sequence and schedule the vet work your route requires. Your veterinarian performs it and interprets it — we check recorded values against published legal thresholds.
Filed by us, signed by your vet. We complete the forms and submit what can be submitted on your behalf. The health certificate itself is issued and signed by your accredited veterinarian under their own credentials — nobody can do that part for them. We prepare it, check it, and make sure it reaches the right desk in the right window.
Card payment — coming soon. These are the real prices, published so you can plan — one payment per direction, nothing recurring.
The check-in, before the check-in
Seven things worth ticking off before any border sees your paperwork. At launch, this becomes your pet’s own list — dated, route-specific, and checked against the documents you upload.
No — and that is a load-bearing no. We prepare, check and orchestrate documents. We never take possession of an animal. When a pet needs to travel in the aircraft hold, that is the work of a licensed IPATA specialist, and we refer you to one.
Which animals do you cover?+
Dogs, cats and ferrets — the three species the major pet-travel schemes define together. Everything else (birds, rabbits, reptiles) crosses borders under a different regime, and a checklist that is wrong for your animal is worse than none. More species come after these three are right.
What about service dogs?+
At the border, a service dog is a dog — the same document route applies, and it is fully in scope today. Cabin access with the airline is a separate stack of forms (in the US, the DOT service-animal attestations) that we do not handle yet, and this page will say so until we do.
How early should I start?+
UK or EU from the US: about a month. Japan: seven months or more. Australia: six months or more, plus a quarantine-space reservation. The honest rule: compute the start-by date backwards from departure the day you first consider the trip — starting early costs nothing, starting late can cost the trip.
Can you promise my pet gets in?+
No, and nobody honest can — the final decision at any border belongs to the officer at the counter. What can be done is making sure the file you hand over matches what the destination actually asked for, verified by a person against your real documents. That is the entire product.
Does the price cover the trip home too?+
No — every price covers one direction, because a round trip is genuinely two imports with two sets of rules. Coming back into the United States with a dog has its own requirements (a CDC import form, microchip verification, and a six-month age floor) that have nothing to do with getting out. If you are returning with your pet, add the return leg for $49 when you buy and we prepare and file both directions. It has to be added at the time of purchase rather than later: the way home can constrain decisions you take at the very start of the outbound sequence, so it is planned in from the beginning.
What is the difference between Filing and Guided?+
$99 per direction of a consultant’s time. Both tiers are worked by a real person and both end with your paperwork prepared and filed. Filing is your documents: you gather them, we verify them and we file them, $99 per pet. Guided adds a consultant who carries the trip with you — you can ask questions directly for the life of the trip, you get the order of operations for what to arrange and when, the airline rules explained for your pet and route, and a written brief your veterinarian can work straight from. To be plain about the boundary: we do not book your travel and we do not make your vet appointments. We tell you exactly what to book and what to ask for; you make the bookings.
From the blog
The rules that decide whether a pet crosses a border, in plain words.
Real trips, in their owners’ words. Names changed at their request — more going up as founding travellers land.
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They filed everything promptly, and when a couple of my documents were not right they sorted it out with me instead of just handing the problem back.
Danielle R.
United States
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I had no idea where to start, and they got the paperwork sorted so I could take my cat with me. That was the whole worry gone.
Marcus T.
Australia · travelling with a cat
Packed and ready
The good version of pet travel: everything dated, everything checked, nobody finding out at a counter.
Carrier approved
Window seat
Ready when you are.
Tell us where your pet is going and we will map the route, name your start-by date, and get the paperwork moving — $99 per pet to file, each direction. Guided adds a consultant at $99 per direction, charged once however many pets are travelling.
We prepare documents. We do not move animals, we are not your veterinarian, and nobody can promise a border officer’s decision. What that means in practice →
